A conservative agenda can win now

By Charles A. Morse
web posted February 26, 2001

With a conservative President, a Republican Congress, and a conservative dominated Supreme Court, we are now in a position to launch a conservative agenda. Action must be decisive while at the same time we are wise to recognize the limitations of what is possible. After almost a century of creeping Fabian authitarianism from the left, things are not likely to start moving in the direction of freedom overnight. The Bush Administration, however, is off to a promising start and deserves our vociferous support at every opportunity. What should that agenda be?

The Tax Cut

President Bush's proposed 1.6 trillion dollar tax cut, retroactive Jan. 1 of this year, will mean approximately $1,600.00 per year in tax savings for the average working family. The money will show up in the paycheck and will feel like a raise, even though, in fact, the government would be returning money that it overtaxed. This should stimulate the economy with an increase in expendable revenue and investment. The Kennedy tax cut of 1961 and the Reagan tax cut of 1981 did just that. The left's contention that we are better off letting them, the experts, spend our money will be severely tested. This money is a significant sum to the low income worker.

Repeal of the Estate Tax

Taxes such as the estate tax, the marriage penalty, and various excise taxes, besides the fact that they tax income twice, are inherently unfair.

Why should the government get money for private transactions or life events? They might as well implement a Bar Mitzvah tax! Some rich people are clamoring for the preservation of an estate tax that they are not likely to pay themselves. They hire lawyers who specialize in devising legal means of dodging it. The tax is paid by the heirs of small businessman and farmers. This often requires the selling off of the business or farm to pay the tax. The tax is anti business and provides a livelihood for a plethora of liberal lawyers. These lawyers made up a major interest group and financial pool for Clinton and the Democrats.

Social Security Reform

Social Security is a scam. The math indicates that the system will not be able to pay present contributors who retire thirty odd years from now. The workingman pays a hefty portion of his paycheck into a system that pays no interest on the money. The government decides what constitutes retirement age and reserves the right to tax and "means test" the dividend. The money disappears upon the death of the earner and/or his spouse.

President Bush's system will allow for a modest portion, hopefully increased over time, of the retirement donation to be diverted into a private fund that can earn interest and be passed on to the contributors heirs upon death. The private retirement fund would allow the lower income earner to participate in the stock market. He will thus develop an unprecedented degree of private ownership. At the same time, he will contribute overall to corporate growth and production. It has been suggested that if the government put $2,000 into a savings account for every child at birth, that money would accumulate, with compound interest, into a substantial nest egg upon retirement at age 65.

Education

President Bush could cut the cost of education in half and stop the dumning down process overnight by simply replacing all reading methods with comprehensive systematic phonics. Bush should invite Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld, author of the Whole Language/OBE Fraud, and one of the nations pre-eminent experts on phonics, to the White House for consultations.

Content should be returned to all areas of education instead of what's there now which is unmitigated garbage. This would require the President to go up against the richest and most powerful union on the planet, the NEA, and the entire educational colossus that is bent on changing education into an indoctrinating process that would churn out "human resources" instead of moral, self sufficient human beings.

Foreign Policy

The missile shield and an improvement in the condition and equipment of our fighting men and women in uniform would go a long way in terms of reversing the decline of the last eight years. President Bush should get behind Sen.

Jesse Helm's call for a rejection of the sovereignty eroding International Criminal Court protocol quietly signed by President Clinton just before leaving office. While we should honor our pledges to support to our allies, the policy of troops stationed overseas should be re-evaluated. World War II ended over 50 years ago. We should insist that the United Nations Charter be re-written to reflect what it was originally sold to the American people as which was a document for a world body acting as a neutral good will ambassador for conflicting nations. We were told that the UN would enhance national sovereignty and freedom. The truth is that the present Charter is a blueprint for world socialist government.

As a conservative agenda is introduced, God willing, the American people will hopefully be gradually awakened to the true meaning of their creed which is liberty and freedom. No doubt there will be major battles ahead between the forces of freedom and those advocating authoritarianism. The good news is that freedom is the natural condition and inclination of man and, once experienced, can be contagious.

Chuck Morse is the author of Thunder out of Boston.

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